A very short review of the Nikon FE10 which I recently purchased for a bargain price. The FE10 is a lightweight, modern, aperture priority/manual SLR made by Cosina for Nikon in the early 2000s. I've owned one of these before but never really liked it, however I'd only used it with the zoom lens that it was supplied with. With a 50mm Series E lens it completely changes the camera. Because it's so light and the Series E lens is pretty much a pancake lens, it will fit into a reasonably sized jacket pocket, meaning you can take it with you.
FE10 and the original FE for comparison
Compared to the FE the FE10 is much lighter. The viewfinder is not as large but it's perfectly usable. The back on the copy I had was badly scuffed - from new the FE10 has some thin rubber like material over a metal film door. However the scuffed material can be easily removed with isopropanol, leaving a nice silky metal finish. It suits a relatively large aperture prime - when I put a zoom lens on it again the viewfinder felt dark.
The FE10 is considerably cheaper than a FE, and is around 20 years newer, meaning that the seals will probably be OK, along with the rest of the camera. As it requires a battery to operate make sure that the meter is working, but this also means that it tends to be cheaper than the fully manual FM!0
The following photos were taken on Ektar 100